Well it has become a way of life for me ,being old with health problems no one,other than my son ,has been in my house since well before lockdown .
Washing machine repair man excepted, in utility room on a day when all doors were open because of the heat ,I touched nothing before wiping down ,after he had gone.
I have in realty been in isolation since January as I could not see to go out .
Contrary to instructions my best eye was operated on first ,then an emergency with my worst eye brought that op forward so I really could not see well enough to go out.
My son comes once a week ,has not been inside though, with some fresh groceries.
Visitors stay in the garden and very very few of those .
It is incredibly lonely as I live alone ,but I am not in a high rise block or a third floor flat etc ,see passers by and can chat to neighbours whilst several metres apart.
There are many worse off them I am.
But life is slipping by ,I can’t hug little GGrandson.nor grandson or granddaughter nor my children ,twol live down South and the eldest comes once a week with the fresh food shopping .He lives not too far away.
Granddaughter suffered an ectopic pregnancy with great complications and now has much less chance of having a baby ,no hugs or kisses for her either.
Granddaughter in law also an induced miscarriage when no foetal heartbeat .
I write phone and email etc but it is not the same is it.
The signs are not good, some feel this is with us now for good and will never be completely eradicated , as yet no vaccine as for flu and it will go on .
But people- some - are incredibly blasé and careless ,selfish and ignorant in the face of information .
Andy Burnham Manchester’s Mayor, has it right ,-too late to impose lockdown too quick to lift it-.
Nothing we oldies can do except obey the rules for others ‘ and our own sakes .
I did not think my closing years would be like this, I was going to be off out and about all over the place ,being irresponsible for the first time in my life!
Ah well , many would swap with me even just to have a garden.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
